Famous quotes containing the words successive, high and/or priests:
“He represents the privilege of the intellect, the power, namely, of carrying up every fact to successive platforms, and so disclosing, in every fact, a germ of explanation.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Men are in the main alike, but they were made several in order that they might be various. If a low use is to be served, one man will do nearly quite as well as another; if a high one, individual excellence is to be regarded.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Wee image of my bonnie Betty,
I fatherly will kiss and daut thee,
As dear an near my heart I set thee
Wi as guid will,
As a the priests had seen me get thee
Thats out o hell.”
—Robert Burns (17591796)
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